Sunday, October 31, 2010

It would be nice if the world of man was a simple creation, where honest effort was its own reward. In such a world, mistakes would be understood as signals of corrections which needed to be made. It is not our good fortunes to live in such a world, at least not as far as all the governments of the world are concerned.

Human governments are in the business of capitalizing upon mistakes, especially turning the mistakes of the opposing party to political advantage. When the stumbling political party happens to be an adversarial government that is the process of self-destruction, then the political urge is to let them suffer. Such was the situation when the Soviet Union fell apart. But that was no excuse for this mistaken American policy or for the train of mistakes which was to follow.

Nothing demonstrates the complexity of the ultimate design which confronts us, or the character flaws of the designers, better than the current state of American/Russian relations. We were led to believe that we had witnessed the implosion of the Soviet state in 1991, but that earth-shaking event was not what it appeared on the surface to be. The event, which was supposed to have meant the end of the modern Russian empire, as well as the end of Soviet Communism, ended nothing, except for the entangling alliances which had been arranged by the demented mind of Josef Stalin.

What really transpired was the “restructuring” (perestroika) of the Russian government, the cutting of economic and social liabilities under the liberal leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev, to give the Kremlin leadership breathing space, in order survive the transition from a model communist system to capitalist model. The “capitalism” that Gorbachev had in mind was not the “democratic-capitalist” of the United States, but the Chinese model of state-dominated capitalism. Gorby had in mind the same Eastern version of “democracy,” as well. The fact that George Bush Sr. and Bill Clinton turned their backs on the people of Russia and the former satellite states and allowed Russian leader Putin time to reestablish a “moderate police state” in the former Soviet space, stands-out as one of the greatest mistakes that any American president has ever made. Had we followed a different path in 1991, one based on cooperation and human compassion, instead of abandoning the people of the former totalitarian Communist dictatorship to suffer the tragic consequences of the failed Soviet system, then there is no doubt in my mind that we would now be living in that new world order of total peace and not living in a bankrupt world preparing for perpetual war and the strong likelihood of total economic collapse. We should lay the blame for the failure of the world order at the feet of George H.W. Bush and William Jefferson Clinton, the “godfathers” of revolutionary interventionist democracy (Reagan is its father.).

Perestroika should be considered to be a “reconstruction” process, since it began with a process of demolition/deconstruction. “Soviet” space had to be cleared in order to raise the new Russian edifice. In reality, this meant the selling-off of large portions of the state industries to foreign investors, in order to acquire reliable capital. There was no shortage of potential buyers, but the Kremlin leadership intended that the end product would remain under their control. This was done by empowering the most successful black marketeers in the old Soviet system, by essentially buying them off. The majority of the “oligarchs” who ended-up owning much of the old Soviet industrial assets had risen to the top through dealings with the Russian mafia, most of whom are Russian Jews, with ties to Israel and international American-Jewish (Zionist) interests.

The opening of the Soviet empire (glasnost) enlivened the Soviet idea of “democracy” sufficiently to convince the world that Russia’s version of “sovereign democracy” was genuine. This made possible the shedding of excess political baggage, which included allowing many more émigrés to Israel. This apparent loosening of state repression brought about a readjustment of Western perceptions of the Kremlin, opening the doors for foreign investments in the decrepit Soviet infrastructure and for the harvesting of abundant post-Soviet natural resources. Many of the new Russian-Israelis organized partnerships with legitimate Western investors and Russian-mafia crime bosses. The end result was that Israeli interests obtained a working relationship with the Putin government, through the oligarchs.

The Russian oligarchs gobbled-up state assets in the former Soviet satellite states, gaining advantages over competitors from their inside connections to those governments and their access to powerful Jewish investors. The oligarchs give the Kremlin direct control over the mining and steel-producing industries in Ukraine, as well as the aluminum mining and smelting facilities in Tajikistan, allowing the Russian government to profit immensely from profits made from refitted modernized industries.

The insiders control over strategic European and Asian industries, coupled with Gazprom’s dominance over energy production in all of Eurasia, have been played by Vladimir Putin like a “royal straight flush” on the international geopolitical scene, allowing him to undercut American interests which had formerly been perceived as unfair to the Russian leadership. Putin’s apparent winning hand in the pipeline wars has given him an inflated sense of power, encouraging him to quietly accept minor irritants like small-scale militant attacks in the Caucasus backed by the CIA and Pentagon, without going to the source of the attacks and exposing the American “Islamists” for which the world now blames only Pakistan.

Although the separate states which had comprised the USSR were set free, enabling them to chart their own courses, links were maintained between governments of the former empire, most notably between militaries and state intelligence agencies. As the ultimate manifestation of the Soviet state and the Communist ideal, the KGB (now known as FSB) maintained dominance over the entire “restructuring” operation, as well as over the separate spy agencies. It is the KGB hand, in the shape of the former KGB General, Vladimir Putin, which has overseen the privatization of the empire and the empowering of the “oligarchs.”

On the other side of the equation and the other side of the Atlantic Ocean we see the record of the American privatization (deconstruction) process, also started by Ronald Reagan. As the economy grinds to a halt, it allows the elite American “oligarchs” to also gobble-up the social service sector of our government, as well as the assets and life savings of the majority of Americans.

The world operates on the power principle—that power must always prevail. This means that advantage over others must be maintained by keeping the other side at a disadvantage, “back on the other foot,” as some folks say. For the United States, in the political arena, this meant using every available means to keep our adversaries off balance, as well as our allies. Such a principle precludes the possibility of ever fully ending hostilities against any adversary, helping to explain the blindness of successive American administrations in their dealings with Russia and other opponents. The American/Russian relationship is a strange blend of success and failure. Each success was as much failure as it was victory, for both sides.

The American/Russian relationship is once again the key to unraveling the mysteries about our current fate, the shape of the future will be determined by the interactions of the leaders of these two great powers. The ongoing terror war is but a reflection of our past collisions, given new forms, using new actors to fight-out the same unanswered contradictions that have kept us at each others’ throats for decades. Which side will prevail, the side that offers the most secure-seeming scenario of a future of perpetual resource wars fought for unexpressed reasons, or will some kind of peaceful coexistence finally take root, offering new hope for the planet itself and for all of humankind?

Obama and Putin are equally determined national leaders, both pulling every available string to achieve the goals of their personal agendas. At times, their separate agendas clearly converge, other times their wheels seem to spin in opposite directions.

During those intervals when both Obama and Putin seem to be spinning their wheels in tandem towards a common goal, it seems that both leaders tend to answer to a third overriding agenda, an unknown source of authority. Some unseen, subversive force seems to always intervene on the world stage, to prevent any conflict from ending decisively (except perhaps for the Sri Lankan/Tamil conflict). Whether that unknown overriding authority is the work of the most powerful oligarchs themselves, or merely the result of forces at work which are beyond our current levels of understanding, will remain for future historians to decide. Historically, the United States and Russia have interfered in all great power struggles in order to preserve a “balance of forces,” but neither the US nor Russia can be blamed for actions taken against themselves, unless both countries are run by leaders who have been compromised by another power.

Then there is the fourth spinning wheel, the eternal power source of the forces of democracy. Among the spinning wheels which are competing for the world’s energy basket, the eternally spinning wheel of human motivation is the only wheel which really matters, for it is the only wheel which powers all the others.

The power of the “common will” is a force which every government must master. Before any leader can harness the common will he must first bend his own will in the people’s direction. He who seeks to override the common will first have to obtain the consent of the people, unless he possesses sufficient force to bend the people’s will to his own and is willing to accept the consequences if such an anti-democratic use of force. Neither Putin nor Obama (not even the unseen powers behind all other powers) has so far been willing to risk the fallout from the use of overtly violent police state policies to crush the democratic forces, but both leaders are willing to allow their underlings to violently redraw the lines of acceptable dissent. The process of narrowing the space of “acceptable” dissent has progressed further under Putin, than it has in the US.

Putin is trying to stabilize Russia and reclaim the best parts of the former Soviet Union, while working within the democratic model. His idea is to redesign the democratic model to make acceptable the tight control of basic First Amendment Rights, such as free speech and the right to assemble.

Vladimir Putin has called the collapse of the Soviet empire “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.” In many ways, he was right; since millions of people were suddenly cast adrift, without a working government, or apparently, a friend in the world. It was not only the Russian government and the fledgling governments of all Eastern Europe, as well as all of the “Stans,” who were cut adrift, because the American government itself, was also without direction or purpose with the sudden, unanticipated collapse of the Soviet system.

The tragedy of the sudden collapse of the slowly deteriorating Soviet government can best be described by comparing it to the situation in the post-war South, after our “last Civil War” (I fully expect a 2nd civil war, as part of the American collapse). The collapse of currency, local supply lines and the descent of “carpet-baggers” upon the hungry war-weary Southerners was much like today’s invasion of carpet-bagger corporations who gave the hungry masses false hope, as they plundered the unsuspecting populations who were recently freed from their own corrupt government. On the heels of the rapacious corporations came the proxy forces of the US government in the form of NGOs (non-governmental organizations). Along with the NGOs, come the third-party foreign proxies of the US Government (Saudis, Turks, Israelis, etc.).

The invasion of former Soviet space has, so far, proceeded unopposed by Moscow for the most part, but all of that began to change with the revival of the neo-Soviet enterprises, in particular, Gazprom, the state oil and gas giant. With the rise of Gazprom came the return of Russian political and economic leverage, especially over Europe. Putin’s power plays in Chechnya and Georgia were made politically acceptable after Gazprom’s victory over Ukrainian gas company Naftogaz gave Moscow full control of most of the gas going to northern Europe.

The certain defeat of the Nabucco pipeline has probably breathed new life into Russia’s South Stream, which will further entrench Moscow as mediator of many European issues that should not be considered a legitimate Russian concern. As insurance in case the reset goes bad, CIA-da is apparently revving-up operations with the Turkish “Deep State” and the PKK terrorist organization, as a presumed prelude to future attacks upon Russia’s South Stream pipeline as it traverses Turkey. Depending upon the outcome of the joint effort in the terror war and how well the United States weathers the total collapse of its economy, Russian leaders believe that they will come out on top, or at least in a position to profit greatly off any American successes.

The simultaneous rising of Dmitry Medvedev with Barack Obama, and their US/Russian “reset” in relations, which the two lawyers have together engineered, has made possible an American/Russian mission in Afghanistan, but it has not led to cooperation on energy production or delivery plans. Both sides are still married to their own profit potentials. This reset in relations has also made possible a new united front against Chinese expansionism and resource monopolization. Whether this anti-Chinese offensive is real or just more stage management is also a question that will have to be answered in the history books, because the future is not yet set (Where is Sarah Connor when you need her?).

This seems to be what the hidden overriding authority (the “third wheel”) wants from us. The ceaseless succession of potential catastrophes which confront us are meant to convince us that survival in this age demands that we allow the European alliance to do whatever the leaders plan for us, as the price for achieving total dominance over all of the world, in particular, the world’s “energy basket.” This is the given justification for the building confrontation with China and for perpetual war for as far as the eye can see. If “We the People” allow these plans to go forward on their current track, then we will witness a further “Sovietization” of our own democracy, as well, and we will have deserved it. It is time for that fourth wheel, the wheel of democratic action, to get spinning, before powers which are hostile to our best interests take the wheel of our power from us.

Saturday, October 23, 2010

"9/11 Truth: As more evidence obliterating the Government's 'official' 9/11 fairy tale emerges, demands for investigation into the truth about what happened that day are growing. When do we review the post-9/11 mentality and face reality?

An excellent essay by Elizabeth Woodworth explains the principles of evidence-based medicine (EBM) and how it could be applied to an investigation into the attacks of 9/11. The effects of 9/11 are far from over as the U.S. Government has used those attacks to declare its fraudulent, endless 'War on Terror', and has shrouded itself in suspicious secrecy to keep its illicit actions covered up. There are many good reasons to investigate the attacks, and more evidence continues surfacing showing that the official story is seriously flawed and full of holes. It's important to understand the events of that day and how it has affected us.

For years the Government has claimed that public knowledge of certain things would endanger 'National Security.' That's a lie. The vast majority of those bogus claims arise due to the Government's need to keep evidence of their crimes covered up and to avoid embarrassment and accountability. The G.W. Bush administration relied heavily on 'National Security' claims to cover its ineptitude and malfeasance, and the Obama administration has picked up right where its predecessor left off.

The Project for the New American Century (PNAC) was a right-wing Neocon think-tank whose members comprised George W. Bush's administration. The PNAC dreamt of establishing a global American empire to bend the will of all nations and wrote about a new Pearl Harbor that would allow them to implement their illegal plans. Members of the PNAC ran the Pentagon, the Defense Department and the White House. Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Richare Perle and Paul Wolfowitz were just a few of the members of the PNAC that held high positions in Bush's administration. The PNAC was co-founded by William Kristol and Robert Kagan in 1997, with roots to the 1992 Pentagon. Many of Bush's policies were based on white papers written by the PNAC. As with his presidency, most of Bush's policies were failures.Media has censored the facts of 9/11 for more than 9 years

When Iran President Ahmadinejad told the United Nations (UN) that most of the world believes the U.S. government was involved in planning and executing the 9/11 attacks, he wasn't lying. The well planned cover up of the attacks of 9/11 would not have been possible without the involvement of the CIA and Mossad. More on that can be found below. Keeping the truth hidden and buried would not have been achieved had it not been enabled by the complicity of the U.S. establishment media. The fact that 23 nations walked out while Ahmadinejad gave his speech is repeatedly noted by establishment media, but the fact that 163 nations stayed is ignored.

There are so many fallacies from the Government about what happened that day that it would take several articles to document them all, so we'll just focus on some of the more important facts. There are more questions about the attack on the Pentagon that aren't addressed here either. To begin to understand the fateful events of that day, you need to understand the U.S. relationship with Israeli officials, which is very dark and very sordid. Many Americans remain blissfully unaware of the billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars given to Israel each year courtesy of the U.S. Government, and how our elected officials have defrauded America for the past three decades.

For years, the U.S. Congress has been hijacked by a record number of Zionists whose loyalty and dedication to Israel has endangered America. Many of those hold high Committee chairs and run America's affairs. It's become painfully obvious the past decade that the U.S. Congress has sold out the Americans they allegedly serve. California alone has 10 representatives who have a strong allegiance to Israel. For a history of Israeli control of America, see this article from Veterans Today. In his America First Committee Des Moines Speech, Charles Lindbergh, referring to Israeli leaders, said "Their greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and our government." Lindbergh said those words on 9/11/41. Those words are even more relevant today.

Israeli intelligence has spied on the U.S. with total impunity for years

Israel's intelligence agencies have illegally spied on the United States for decades, and continue doing so to this day. During the attacks of 9/11 Israeli companies were in charge of airline security and are still responsible for most telecommunications security in the U.S., giving them easy access to virtually all phone records originating in the U.S. Virtually anything that has to do with security, intelligence, spying and so much more involves Israeli agencies. According to Philip Giraldi, numerous Israeli air-travel security companies are known to act as local Mossad stations. Some of the hatred being currently directed at Muslims is courtesy of Mossad agents impersonating U.S. intelligence, possibly in preparation for more false flag operations.

A Mossad surveillance team consisting of five individuals -- later dubbed the Dancing Israelis -- set up video cameras aimed at the Twin Towers before the attacks, and were seen congratulating each other afterwards. Witnesses reported that these men were seen jumping for joy after the initial impact. These men, who all failed multiple polygraph tests, were arrested and held for a few days before being ordered released by none other than "Homeland Security" Secretary Michael Chertoff who holds dual Israeli-American citizenship. Two months after the attacks, three of the five Dancing Israelis appeared on Israeli TV and admitted that they were Mossad and they were there to document the attack.

Despite Israeli foreknowledge of the attacks, and despite the lack of evidence, the U.S. immediately began pinning the attacks on Osama bin Laden. Robert J. Loewenberg, President of the Israeli Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies (IASPS) published a letter online before the U.S. began trying to blame bin Laden, inadvertently revealing that Mossad was in part a player in the 9/11 false flag attacks. Loewenberg's letter highlighted the intent of the attacks and what they expected to gain from it. It's rather ironic that G.W. Bush would try to pin the attacks on Osama bin Laden when both families have a long history -- a history that went back for more than 20 years. Members of the bin Laden family were flown out of the U.S. at taxpayer expense right after the attacks occurred.

Bush admitted to seeing the first plane hit the WTC on TV, despite the fact that he was in a classroom in Florida when it was first shown to the public. Either he had access to a stream of it hitting the building before it was made public or he knew well in advance what was going to happen. Former Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld inadvertently admitted that Flight 93 was 'shot down.' Claims of people receiving phone calls from passengers on board hijacked flights have already been proved false. Stories from top Bush officials were always changing as they saw fit.

Many are unaware that Marvin P. Bush, G.W. Bush's younger brother, was a principal in Securacom (now Stratasec), the highly-secretive company that provided 'security' for the World Trade Center, United Airlines and Dulles International Airport -- all of which were key in the attacks of 9/11. Securacom was backed by a private Kuwaiti-American investment firm with close ties to the Bush family. The weekend before the attacks, there was a 'power down' condition in Tower 2, meaning there were no security cameras and no locks on doors with many 'engineers' coming and going in and out of the tower. A heightened WTC security alert, due to numerous phone threats, was lifted on 9/6/01 two days before the 'power down.' Once the alert was called off, bomb-sniffing dogs were abruptly removed. Why? It also turns out that Marvin Bush was in New York on 9/11. Coincidence? Probably not. Convenient? You betcha.

Looking to the FBI or the Department of Justice to investigate serious acts of treason committed by Government officials? Don't bother wasting your time. The highest ranking members of both "Justice" branches are corrupt and just as guilty as those they serve. In fact, USA Today reporters found 201 cases -- which just scratches the surface -- in which egregious misconduct was found by Department of Justice attorneys, with few consequences. Justice is an oxymoron that has become so politically corrupt, it's easily manipulated to further whatever agenda the President or his administration deems fit and malfeasance is rewarded.It's time to rid ourselves of the post-9/11 mentality and face reality

The facts showing the 9/11 attacks as being false flag operations speak for themselves, some of which are outlined above. On the morning of the 9/11 attacks, there were several military exercises taking place, some of which actually mirrored planes flying into the World Trade Center. Despite having plenty of time to shoot the planes down before they crashed into the towers, Vice President Cheney gave orders for the military to stand down, allowing the planes to hit the towers. More than one Bush administration official lied when they claimed they never dreamed of planes flying into the World Trade Center. The only plane that was shot down was flight 93. The rest, as they say, is history.

The information above is only the tip of the proverbial iceberg. A lot more information is out there, such as the anthrax attacks and the stock options that were purchased against United and American airlines right before 9/11, and more, and the growing evidence indicates the need for an honest investigation into what really happened on 9/11 and why it happened. All you need to do is follow the money and the rest becomes more evident. Instead of vilifying those seeking the truth, we need answers. As history has taught us, the interesting thing about 'conspiracy theories' is those who complain about them the loudest are usually the ones trying to keep things covered up -- since they have the most to lose -- and many of these so-called 'conspiracy theories' actually turned out to be true. Think about it, then get used to the fact that our Government is not what it seems. Who benefited the most from the attacks?

It's time to correct the wrongs and review the issues that have plagued this nation since 9/11. Attempts to find the truth are always met in contemptuous ways by the Government, or one of its highly paid cronies who attempt to vilify those who speak up about 9/11 Truth while conjuring up something they want you to believe debunks the truth. Put the Bush cabal on the stand under oath in a court of law that isn't presided over by one of its corrupt appointed Judicial cronies and hold them accountable. Release the hundreds of tapes and other evidence that was confiscated -- provided Bush didn't commit another crime and order them destroyed -- to the public and prove that the Government's official 9/11 fairy tale is true. Here's a hint: that won't happen because it would incriminate most of our politicians in Washington and those who own them...which, if you think about it, is one of the best reasons of all for a true, thorough investigation by anyone other than the Government. The Government has repeatedly proved that it cannot, and will not, investigate itself or hold itself accountable.

As taught by Socrates, the pursuit of truth can only begin once you start to question and analyze every belief you ever hold dear. If a certain belief passes the tests of evidence, deduction, and logic, it should be kept. If it doesn't, not only should the belief be discarded, but the thinker must also then question why he was led to believe the erroneous information in the first place. We've been purposely misled on what happened on 9/11/01 by the Government. Why? Truth was replaced with war profiteering, fraud, cronyism, and a lot more political corruption.

The rule of law needs to apply to everyone, including politicians and the politicized "Justices" and other Federal Judges appointed by them -- and those industries and corporations that control them -- for the atrocities that have occurred because of and after the attacks of 9/11. The out-of-control Government needs to be put back under control. Enough lives have already been sacrificed in order to further the needs of a few. Theoretically, the U.S. Government and the U.S. Military work for the Americans who pay their salaries, but those days have been purposely replaced with the industrial-military complex that is out of control. The U.S. "Intelligence" apparatus is unmanageable. "Homeland Security" and "Justice" are oxymorons. Until the people create their own "Pearl Harbor" and get involved, it's only going to get worse.

Friday, October 15, 2010

"This is the biggest scandal in human history. Indeed, all previous scandals from around the globe combined cannot even touch this one in terms of scale and scope and stench.

by L. Randall Wray, Benzinga

We have long known that lender fraud was rampant during the real estate boom. The FBI began warning of an “epidemic” of mortgage fraud as early as 2004. We know that mortgage originators invented “low doc” and “no doc” loans, encouraged borrowers to take out “liar loans”, and promoted “NINJA loans” (no income, no job, no assets, no problem!). All of these schemes were fraudulent from the get-go. Property appraisers were involved, paid to overvalue real estate. That is fraud. The securitizers packaged trash into bundles that ratings agencies blessed with the triple A seal of approval. By their own admission, raters worked with securitizers to provide the rating desired, never looking at the loan tapes to see what they were rating. Fraud. Venerable investment banks like Goldman Sachs packaged the trashiest securities into collateralized debt obligations at the behest of hedge fund managers–who were allowed to choose the most toxic of the toxic waste—then sold the CDOs on to their own customers and allowed the hedge funds to bet against them. More fraud.

Indeed, the largest financial institutions were run by their management as what my colleague Bill Black calls “control frauds”. That is, the banks used accounting fraud to manufacture fake profits so that they could pay huge bonuses to top management. The latest data out on Wall Street bonuses show that these institutions are still run as control frauds, with another record year of bonuses paid by cooking the books. The fraud continues unabated.

This is the biggest scandal in human history. Indeed, all previous scandals from around the globe combined cannot even touch this one in terms of scale and scope and stench. This is the mother of all frauds and it will be etched into the history books for all time....

Saturday, October 2, 2010

I didn't see the war-promoting corporate media making a big issue of it:

"Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth. --source--"

How prophetic because it's so true 62 years after his death.

"Let the Jews who claim to be the chosen race prove their title by choosing the way of non-violence for vindicating their position on earth..... What is going on in Palestine today cannot be justified by any moral code of conduct. --source--"

A prophet in his own right.

More:"On this second day of October, we honor the man with the plan as we celebrate his life and the lessons he shared with the world. In loving memory, here are a few of Gandhi’s most famous quotes:“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated”

“A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.”

“Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.”

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”

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